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TORCASO v. WATKINS, CLERK

[No. 199, September Term, 1959.]

223 Md. 49 (1960)

162 A.2d 438

TORCASO v. WATKINS, CLERK

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 30, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo Pfeffer and Joseph A. Sickles, with whom were Carlton R. Sickles, Sanford H. Bolz, Bruce N. Goldberg and Sickles & Sickles on the brief, for the appellant.

Stedman Prescott, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, with whom was C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellee.

Brief of amicus curiae in support of the appellant filed by Lawrence Speiser, George Kauffman, Laurence J. Cohen and Rowland Watts for the American Civil Liberties Union.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

Decided June 30, 1960. Reversed and remanded, 367 U.S. 488.

HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County dismissing a petition for mandamus against the Clerk of that court, after a demurrer to the petition had been sustained. The petition alleged, and the demurrer admitted, that the appellant, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Montgomery...

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